John Salerno wrote: > In C#, writing to a binary file wrote the actual data types into the > file (integers, etc.).
This was inherently nonportable. > Is this not how Python binary files work? I tried > to write integers into a file, but the write method only takes a string > argument anyway. > > Is there a way to actually store integers in a file, so that they can be > read and used (added, compared, etc.) as integers? You can use the struct module for converting fundamental types to a portable string representation for writing to binary files. Since you're dealing with a high-level language, you can also just use the pickle module for a more general form of serialization and persistence. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis My reputation grows with every failure. -- George Bernard Shaw -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
